Topic: Industry Events - Page 54

According to Rackspace, BitTitan, Arcserve, and others Microsoft is making progress toward the sweeping changes it introduced a year ago, but has yet to turn most of its intentions into reality.

Called the Wingman Professional Services Program, the new offering is less a strategic pivot into a new revenue source than an effort to help partners get cloud infrastructure practices up and running swiftly.

The roughly 30 rigorously vetted partners to earn the new Azure Expert Managed Service Provider designation so far, which include giants like Rackspace and New Signature, are now Microsoft’s go-to options for outsourced Azure administration.

Held last week in Hershey, Pa., the distributor’s Mid-Atlantic Summer Technology Show offered nearly 1,000 attendees a host of meet, greet, and learning opportunities.

IT solution providers and technology vendors gathered for two days of networking, education, and training in Ann Arbor.

The newest addition to the ConnectWise product family, which currently provides centralized control over cloud computing solutions, will soon perform similar functions for backup and security solutions from ConnectWise’s vendor partners.

Both BDR vendors have made it easier for MSPs to monitor, provision, and invoice services from directly within the ConnectWise Manage PSA system and ConnectWise Automate RMM solution.

Crowned at the vendor’s Automation Nation event today, Jimmy Puckett and David Wilkeson (pictured) will receive up to $100,000 to create an add-on for the ConnectWise Manage PSA solution that automates employee bonus calculation.

Speaking at the company’s 2018 Automation Nation event today, Chief Product Officer Craig Fulton (pictured) described a platform philosophy aimed at offering MSPs single-pane-of-glass control over its own solutions and those from its ecosystem of partners.

CEO Austin McChord tells attendees at the annual MSP partner gathering, the first since Datto’s merger with Autotask, that the company’s commitment to their success includes an open and broad portfolio, an obsessive MSP focus, and delivering groundbreaking technology.